Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland
Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
No, but I am trying to establish something. In his opening remarks, Mr. Delaney stated that at the meeting on 25 April 2017 between himself, Mr. Breen and Ms Tsang, concerns were raised that cheques had been written and that if they were all cashed in before the end of the week, there would be an issue in respect of sufficient funds being in the account to meet them. I am trying to establish that there are clearly different sets of creditors. For some creditors, for example, League of Ireland clubs that are owed prize money or UEFA money, that money is already sitting in a different account. There would not be an issue if, say, Cork City, Dundalk, Derry City or any of those clubs requested their prize money from the FAI. There would not be an issue because that money is sitting in a separate account. Is it a fair assessment that there would only be certain types of creditors to whom those cheques would be written who could create a potential cashflow issue?
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